Archive for December, 2006
We were given a coupon for a complimentary champagne breakfast. Mmm, you’re thinking. Not so much. The champagne basically served to help you choke down the food that was not delicious. I guess you take what you can get when you are asking a stranger to make you your meal.
We drove to a town called […]
Apparently NZ calls a beach where the water hits the land. I wouldn’t count most of the stops we made on our Christmas Eve day drive…after our pancake breakfast we took a two hour drive on a highway that was a dirt road. We stopped along the way for some waterfall views and such, and […]
Austin Real Estate Market - November 2006 Sales Stats Update
Closed Published by Steve Crossland December 23rd, 2006 on Austin Real Estate Blog - Austin TX Real EstateAustin Average Sales Prices for Nov 2006 are up 5.7% from Nov 2005, and up 9.7% year to date. The Austin market sold 10% more single-family homes so far this year than last, and the Day on Market are about the same as Nov last year but down 11% Year to date. The Austin real […]
No scenic highway road-trip is complete without a stop at Sheepworld, when you in a country that has 40 million of them. You’ll be shocked to hear that we managed to stop in without buying one of everything, but it was pretty funny.
We ended up in Tairua that day, a neat bay with water tides […]
After breakfast, and me learning that yes, we will be getting up at 6am every morning, and no, no one cares if that makes me grouchy, we headed down another scenic highway this time traveling from the west side of the island to the east. In two hours we were in Pahia, a busy little […]
A Time to Reconnect
Closed Published by Business Networking in Austin Blog December 22nd, 2006 on Business Networking in Austin Blog
It seems to me that people fall into 2 camps in December. For one group it is one of the busiest times of year and they don’t have time to stop and think; think retailers. For the other group things slow down a bit. Work isn’t as busy and they have some extra time to plan and work on catch-up projects leading into the new year.
I’ve been in the second camp this year. I took the opportunity to reach out to a lot of people in my network that I haven’t talked to in a while for one reason or another. That time was very well spent. Nobody ever complains that they just heard from an old friend that they haven’t talked to in a while. Especially this time of year.
It’s been such a rewarding experience that I’m hoping to repeat it a little more often than just in December next year. It only takes a few minutes to pick up the phone to say “Hi! How’ve you been?”
Who can you reconnect with? Take 5 or 10 minutes right now and reconnect. Unless of course you’re in the first camp of crazies in which case you shouldn’t even be reading my blog right now.
Merry Christmas and Happy Networking!
Scott Ingram
In the morning we were pleased to learn that whatever package we had bought included breakfast every day, and for some reason we could get whatever we wanted no matter the price. I’ll take it… We headed north up the North island over the bay bridge and realized that basically every NZ highway is a […]
International Date Line Lost Us A Day
Closed Published by The CK December 20th, 2006 on Some Go SoftlyWe were at the airport so long it felt like we would never get to NZ. There was a mix up of flights and check in spots etc. etc. We went from SFO to LAX, on United, the worst airline I’ve ever seen. We finally made it on the Air NZ plane and were all […]
Ryan D. does not celebrate his birthday. That is funny if you know me and birthdays. Birthday, in my world, is free pass to, I don’t know, go out and black out and kick cops bikes over and throw up in front of your little cousin and then at the Salt Lick too. While your […]
Saturday morning we went out at 10am on a tour of downtown provided by the hotel. We must have been feeling really touristy. He talked a lot about the city and it’s history and architecture, and I learned that that was a city I very clearly knew nothing about - it is apparently common knowledge […]